Tanya Mozias Slavin
By Tanya Mozias Slavin
-
Opinion As a Soviet Jew, Yom Kippur Makes Me Feel Like An Outsider
For many years, I had my own personal tradition that I would observe on Yom Kippur. The day before, I would go to the big supermarket in our neighborhood in Southern Jerusalem and buy myself a watermelon. On the morning of Yom Kippur, I would split the watermelon in half, and declare the official beginning…
-
Life How A Christian School Helped My Son Find His Judaism
When we find out that the local primary school to which we are about to send our son is affiliated with a Christian Methodist church, we begin to worry what it will do to our child’s malnourished Jewish identity. The school has a friendly atmosphere, claims to be tolerant of all religions and views, and…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion Hamas made a remarkable offer — because Trump laid a remarkable trap
- 2
Special Report This school is fighting antisemitism all wrong. Why is it working?
- 3
Books A bespectacled, Jewish hypochondriac with literary pretensions and a creepy fascination with his stepson’s girlfriend — Guess who?
- 4
Opinion Israel is at an existential pivot point. It never needed to go this far.
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture Could dementia be the key to saving endangered Jewish languages?
-
Opinion I know exactly why leftists aren’t celebrating this ceasefire
-
Fast Forward ‘Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes,’ Charlie Kirk wrote in leaked text messages before his murder
-
Fast Forward MIT’s Jewish president rejects Trump’s offer of ‘priority’ funding in exchange for policy changes
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
